SEL Superhero Training
Our seven lesson, SEL Superhero Training, empowers parents and educators to turn each 10 - 20 minute read-along of My Friend Breath, into an impactful social-emotional learning experience.
Helping to create a world where more children feel confident to manage their emotions and handle anything that comes their way, like true superheroes!
Social-Emotional Learning Creates Confidence!
Teaching social-emotional skills is a priority for educators and parents who are invested in a child’s well-being.
Yet we understand that finding the time to do this can be difficult, especially in an already crowded curriculum, or during a busy day.
Which is why we’ve designed these lessons to help you multitask and teach each social-emotional skill during a read-along of My Friend Breath.
By presenting a read-along as “Superhero Training”, you will instantly engage your child and maximize their focus and participation. With a range of comprehension activities, and interactive online games, these lessons make social-emotional learning fun and enjoyable for adults and children alike.
Explore each of our seven learning guides, and discover how easy it is to develop your child's social-emotional skills, and build their confidence through our Superhero Training.
What our superheroes are saying
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Our seven superhero social-emotional skills are:
Mindful Breathing, Breath Awareness, Superhero Breathing, Developing Resilience, Emotional Empowerment, Showing Empathy, and Self-Regulation.
Each individual Superhero Learning Guide includes:
Foundational information on the focus social-emotional skill
A read-along script with what to say, ask, and do to teach each skill
Comprehension questions
Interactive online games and puzzles
Printable activities
QR code and clickable links for easy access
Buy guides individually or purchase as a bundle and receive all seven guides PLUS the My Friend Breath digital flipbook free!
Buy as above, or get full access in our Superhero Club Membership! Learn more below.
Access to all via a Superhero Club Membership
A Superhero Club Membership gives multiple users access to all of the My Friend Breath digital and printable resources.
This includes:
The My Friend Breath picture book - flipbook, PDF, & audiobook.
The Playtime with Ash PDF, digital and audio flipbook.
All 7 SEL Superhero Training learning guides, games, & activities.
An All-Access Superhero Club Playground Pass with 16 superhero breathing patterns.
The 12-month membership is designed to support adults and children to have equal and unlimited access, so you can use a consistent approach in developing emotional-regulation and resilience skills.
We offer memberships for families, homeschool groups, schools, learning centres, and health services/professionals.
What’s inside our learning guides for kids?
64 online interactive games and puzzles are included in the Superhero Training.
The purpose of these online activities is to actively engage your child in learning each specific social-emotional skill through the process of play.
Catering for different ability levels and featuring illustrations from the My Friend Breath Picture Book, these games are an enjoyable and meaningful way to focus your child's attention while enhancing their learning. They are also a fun and easy way to disguise learning for reluctant participants!
For entertaining and educational offline learning the Superhero Training lessons also includes 28 printable activities.
With games, puzzles, mazes, crosswords, drawings, colouring in, and more. All which provide hours of engaging activities that will help to balance out your child's screen time.
The activities cater for different ability levels and also help to embed the social-emotional learning focus of each superhero learning guide. They are great to use with a child one-on-one or in a group setting.
To formally complete the Superhero Training your child is presented with the Superhero Quiz.
The quiz questions give your child the opportunity to showcase the knowledge and skills they have developed throughout the lessons.
Celebrate this accomplishment, and their transformation into a superhero, by awarding them with the official ‘My Friend Breath Superhero Certificate’. The certificate is both editable & printable and officially welcomes your child to the My Friend Breath Superhero Club!
What’s inside our learning guides for adults?
A fact sheet is included at the start of each guide to introduce the social-emotional skill.
These provide foundational knowledge to help adults understand what the focus skill is, why it matters, and how the skill is demonstrated throughout the My Friend Breath picture book.
This information empowers you to confidently share each concept with your child during the conversations you have together, before, during and after a read-along of the story.
The read-along scripts help you take the foundational information about each skill and teach it to your child.
Each script gives you clear and concise instructions on:
What to say, using kid-friendly language,
What to ask, with suggested answers given, and
What to do to teach each social-emotional skill.
This helps to turn a reading of My Friend Breath into a powerful learning experience for your child.
Checking that your child understands what you are teaching is an important part of supporting them to develop their social-emotional skills.
In each learning guide the ‘Check for Understanding’ section has three resources that assess your child's comprehension of the specific focus skill. These are a fun way for your child to showcase and celebrate their learning. The activities include:
A set of comprehension questions and answers.
Six online question/answer flipcards.
An interactive audio activity.
Explore the Seven Social-Emotional Skills
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1. Mindful Breathing
Do you want to help your child establish a mindful breathing practice, but you’re not sure where to begin?
This first learning guide makes teaching mindful breathing easy for adults and fun for kids!
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2. Breath Awareness
Did you know that every emotion has a corresponding breathing pattern?
This learning guide shows you how to introduce the concept of breath awareness to a child and explain the connection between our breath and our emotions.
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3. Superhero Breathing
Want to help children understand why to connect to their breath and how they can use it to self-calm?
This learning guide explains in simple, kid-friendly language, why your breath is magical and introduces four superhero breathing patterns children can use to self-calm.
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4. Developing Resilience
Imagine witnessing your child confidently regulate their emotions through the ups and downs of life.
Combining breath awareness with mindful breathing is the empowering resilience strategy that is the focus of this learning guide.
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5. Emotional Empowerment
Want to empower your child with a simple emotional-regulation strategy?
This learning guide helps children discover how becoming a superhero, through using this three word strategy, is the essence of emotional empowerment.
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6. Showing Empathy
Looking for a way to teach your child how to show kindness and empathy towards others?
Teaching children how to respond to someone else’s emotional state in an empathic manner is the focus of this learning guide.
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7. Self-Regulation
Will my child know how to connect to their breath when they need to?
This learning guide helps to transition a child's knowledge of how to use their breath into a skill they can use to self-regulate their emotions, anytime, anywhere.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Parents, carers, teachers, child-care educators, special education teachers, home schoolers, any influential adults in a child’s life.
This Superhero Training is an easy to use resources to help you teach social-emotional skills to a child during a read-along of the picture book My Friend Breath.
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Our Superhero Training is a companion to the My Friend Breath picture book. Therefore you will need a copy of this book, either in a digital or physical format, to teach these lessons.
If you purchase the Superhero Bundle, which includes all of the learning guides, you receive a FREE digital flipbook version of My Friend Breath picture book
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The superhero training guides are set up to be taught in a sequential order that progressively develops the concepts for your child.
Each social-emotional skill builds upon the last, allowing children’s learning to be consolidated as you move through the training.
We suggest following this order, but if a particular focus is needed you can certainly teach them in the way that works best for you.
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The Superhero Training Program is delivered electronically via email upon purchase.
Each learning guide is provided as a printable PDF
The activities and games are hosted on our website with clickable links and QR codes inside of each learning guide.
The Superhero Certificate is provided as an editable and printable PDF.
When purchased as part of a Superhero Club Membership each superhero training is easily accessible via the membership homepage in the same formats as detailed above.
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For multiple people to access our resources purchase a Superhero Club Membership.
Our membership options provide equal and unlimited access to all our digital resources, which includes the superhero training.
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We suggest allocating 10 - 20 minutes to complete the My Friend Breath read-along script portion of each Superhero Training guide with your child.
Prepare yourself by pre-reading the foundational information about the social-emotional skill focus at the beginning of each learning guide.
There is no suggested time frame for the games and activities for children, other than allowing them to enjoy the experience of consolidating their learning through play!
We love our amazing community of superheroes!
It is a joy to share the magic of the breath with children, families, and communities around the world.
We are grateful to do so through our My Friend Breath resources, as well as in-person, and virtual author visits.
Join us as we celebrate our amazing superhero community!